Now some are puffed up, as though I were not coming to you.

Such were some of you, but you have washed away your stains, you have been consecrated, you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.

But that "knowledge" is not possessed by all; but some, accustomed until now to the idol, eat food as that which has actually been offered to an idol, and so their conscience, being still weak, is defiled.

I am become weak to the weak, to win the weak. I am become all these things to all men that, by any and by all means, I may save some.

And you must not be idolaters like some of them. as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, And they rose up for idol dances.

Nor must we act licentiously, as some of them did, and fell in a single day, twenty-three thousand of them.

Neither must we presume upon the patience of our Lord, as some of them presumed, and were destroyed by the serpents;

nor murmur, as some of them did, and were destroyed by the Destroying Angel.

To begin with, I am told??nd I believe there is some truth in it??hat when you meet at a church there are divisions among you.

Now brothers, if I should come to you speaking with tongues, what should I benefit you, unless I speak to you some revelation, or knowledge, or prophecy, or teaching?

If any one speaks in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that in turn, and let some one interpret.

But if to one as he sits there some revelation is made, let the first be silent.

Afterward he was seen at one time by more than five hundred brethren, most of whom are still alive, but some are fallen asleep.

If then, we are preaching Christ, that he rose from the dead, how are some of you saying that there is no resurrection from the dead?

Wake up, do justly, cease from sin; for I say to your shame that some of you have no acquaintance with God.

But some one will ask. "How are the dead raised? and with what body are they coming?"

And when you sow the seed you are not sowing the body that it will become, but bare grain, of wheat perhaps, or some other grain.

I shall remain some time with you; possibly spending the winter, in order that you may help me forward in whatever journey I take.

For I do not wish at this present time to see you merely in passing; but if the Lord permits, I hope to remain some time with you.